Food prices in Africa respond in familiar ways to changes in the global environment, but there are a number of unique characteristics that have to be accounted for in understanding how these prices play out in domestic markets. African countries are price takers in global agricultural commodity ...
Statistics South Africa ValueChgChg% Related Last Previous Unit Reference Consumer Price Index CPI 116.10 116.00 points Sep 2024 Core Consumer Prices 113.30 113.00 points Sep 2024 Core Inflation Rate YoY 4.10 4.10 percent Sep 2024 Core Inflation Rate MoM 0.30 0.00 percent Sep 2024 CPI Housing Utilit...
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Higher international food prices will have a more aggressive impact on African CPI readings than those in advanced economies.
In the first part of our empirical analysis, we investigate the properties of the estimated qualities, drawing some interesting results. In particular we find that, in contrast with what is often assumed in the literature, quality and prices are imperfectly correlated. The second empirical section ...
However, incomplete credit markets and high transaction costs of maize selling in the hunger season, combined with seasonal price changes of maize, affect seasonal consumption differently for households who did not buy maize at higher prices during the crop year (NBH households) relative to ...
Several recent studies explored food price shocks across Africa. Kuma & Gata [24] investigated factors affecting food price inflation in Ethiopia. Their findings revealed that real GDP and world food prices affected food price inflation negatively and significantly, whereas domestic food prices, annual...
(2022). The impacts of climate change on cropland allocation, crop production, output prices and social welfare in Israel: A structural econometric framework. Food Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2022.102311 Article Google Scholar Kelkar, U., & Bhadwal, S. (2007). South Asian ...
Conversely, a 50% spike in world rice prices hits the urban poor hardest, compressing calorie consumption by up to 8%. Nigeria is Africa's largest economy, a major oil producer with population of over 190 million people, with an average growth rate of about 3% per year. The country's ...